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During the mission, he was responsible for operating the Infrared Background Signature Satellite from within the payload bay, on the Remote Manipulator System and as a free-flying satellite.
He also operated the remote system to release the satellite, and then to retrieve the satellite a day and a half later.
After 134 orbits of the Earth which covered 3.5 million miles (5,600,000 km) and lasted just over 199 hours, the crew landed at California, on May 6, 1991.
Hieb was also a mission specialist on the crew of STS-49, the maiden voyage of the new Space Shuttle "Endeavour", which launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 7, 1992.
During that mission, Hieb along with astronaut Pierre Thuot, performed three space walks which resulted in the capture and repair of the stranded Intelsat VI F3 communications satellite.
The third space walk, which also included astronaut Tom Akers, was the first ever (and to date only) three-person space walk.
This 8 hour and 29 minute space walk, the longest in history, broke a twenty-year-old record that was held by Apollo 17 astronauts.
The STS-49 record endured for 9 years until being surpassed by James Voss and Susan Helms on the International Space Station, and now stands in second place for EVA duration.
The mission concluded on May 16, 1992 with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base after orbiting the Earth 141 times in 213 hours and traveling 3.7 million miles (5.9 million kilometres).
Hieb was the payload commander on the second flight of the International Microgravity Laboratory on Space Shuttle Mission STS-65.
The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 1994, and returned there on July 23, 1994, setting a new flight duration record for the Space Shuttle program.
During the 15-day flight the crew conducted more than 80 experiments focusing on materials and life sciences research in microgravity.
The mission was accomplished in 236 orbits of the Earth, traveling 6.1 million miles (9.8 million kilometres).
William Grainger Blount
William Grainger Blount (1784 – May 21, 1827) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819.
He is the son of Southwest Territory governor William Blount and nephew of Tennessee governor Willie Blount, serving under the latter as Tennessee Secretary of State from 1811 to 1815.
Blount was born near New Bern, North Carolina, in Craven County, the eldest son of William Blount and Mary Grainger Blount.
He attended the New Bern Academy.
In 1792, following his father's appointment as Governor of the Southwest Territory, he moved with his parents to Knoxville, which had been chosen as the new territorial capital.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1805.
He was never married and had no known children.
Blount practiced law in Knoxville.
He also engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In 1811, he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Shortly afterward, the General Assembly elected him Secretary of State of Tennessee.
Serving alongside his uncle, Governor Willie Blount, he helped coordinate the state's War of 1812 efforts, and certified the "Walker Line" as the boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky.
Following the death of John Sevier in 1815, Blount was elected to his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, narrowly defeating John Cocke by a vote of 1,583 to 1,355.
He was reelected in 1817, again defeating Cocke by a narrow margin, 3,627 votes to 3,429.
Serving as a Democratic-Republican in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth congresses, Blount consistently sought the creation of new postal routes throughout his district, including a route connecting Maryville and Sevierville, a route connecting Sevierville and Dandridge, and a route connecting Morganton, Tennessee, with Carnesville, Georgia.
He voted in favor of an 1816 bill reaffirming the nation's neutrality, and voted against the Bonus Bill of 1817 (he also voted in favor of sustaining President James Madison's veto of the Bonus Bill).
Choosing not to run for a third term, Blount resumed his practice of law in Knoxville.
In 1818, he became owner of Blount Mansion, the house his father had built in the city.
He moved to Paris, Tennessee, in 1826, where he continued to practice law.
He died on May 21, 1827, and is interred in the City Cemetery in Paris.
Zeya River
Zeya River (; from indigenous Evenki word "dgeœ" (blade); , Mölendroff: jingkiri bira), 1,242 km long, is a northern tributary of the Amur River.
The first Russian to enter the area was Vassili Poyarkov.
It rises in the Tokiysky Stanovik mountain ridge, a part of the Stanovoy Range.
Zeya flows through the Zeya Reservoir, at the junction of the Tukuringra Range and Dzhagdy Range, and joins the Amur River near Blagoveshchensk, in Russia's Amur Oblast.
Regulation of river discharge by Zeya Dam mitigates extremities of river flow down to 5000 m³/s.
The main tributaries of the Zeya River are Tok, Mulmuga, Bryanta, Gilyuy, and Urkan on the right, and Kupuri, Argi, Dep, Selemdzha, and Tom on the left.
The river freezes from November to May.
It is navigable with the most important river ports being Zeya, Svobodny, and Blagoveshchensk.
With Fire and Sword
With Fire and Sword () is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884.
It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by "The Deluge" ("Potop", 1886) and "Fire in the Steppe" (originally published under the Polish title "Pan Wołodyjowski", which translates to "Lord Wolodyjowski").
The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999.
"With Fire and Sword" is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.
It was initially serialized in several Polish newspapers, chapters appearing in weekly installments.
It gained enormous popularity in Poland, and by the turn of the 20th century had become one of the most popular Polish books ever.
It became obligatory reading in Polish schools, and has been translated into English and most European languages.
The series was a vehicle for expressing Polish patriotism in a Poland partitioned and deprived of independence.
Despite some deviations, the book's historical framework is genuine and the fictional story is woven into real events.
Many characters are historical figures, including Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki).
Sienkiewicz researched memoirs and chronicles of the Polish nobility, or szlachta, for details on life in 17th-century Poland.
The book was written, according to the author, "to lift up the heart" of the Polish nation in the unhappy period following the failed January Uprising during the era of the partitions of Poland.
Thus it often favors epic plots and heroic scenes over historical accuracy.
Nonetheless, Sienkiewicz's vivid language made it one of the most popular books about that particular place and era.
Jan Skrzetuski (Yan Skshetuski), lieutenant of the armoured regiment of Prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (Yeremi Vishnyevetski), gives assistance to Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki (first posing as Abdank) as his party are returning from a mission to the Khan through the Wilderness.
At Czyhryn (Pol.
Czehryń) the next day, Skrzetuski learns that Chmielnicki was escaping to the Sich.
In a tavern he throws Czapliński (Chaplinski), a voluble under–starosta (and Chmielnicki's deadly enemy), out through the door.
It is here that he also becomes acquainted with Zagłoba and the Lithuanian Podbipięta (Podbipienta), who wishes to join the service of Prince Jeremi in order to fulfil his family vow of cutting off the heads of three infidels, all at the same time with one blow.
On their way to Lubni, the party comes to the assistance of two women, one of whom is Helena Kurcewicz (Kurtsevich), returning to her aunt's home that really belongs to her.
Jan's party are invited back to Rozlogi where Jan meets Bohun, a Cossack, adopted as a sixth son by the old princess (Helena's aunt).
Bohun wants to pick a quarrel but is sent away and Jan is able to declare his love for Helena.
Skrzetuski realizes the girl is being mistreated and denied her rights so gets the princess to promise Helena to him instead of Bohun or he will have Prince Jeremi help her recover home.
The lieutenant finally arrives at Lubni and tells his comrades about his mission to the Crimea.
Prince Jeremi returns and entertainments are laid on.
To wile away the time, Skrzetuski fences with his friend, Michał Wołodyjowski (Volodyovski), and receives a response to his letter sent to Helena via Rzędzian (Jendzian), his assistant.
Revolution is now afoot.
The prince decides to send an envoy, in a group led by Pan (Sir) Bychowiec (Bykhovets), to the Sich to find out about Chmielnicki.
Jan persuades him to let him go in his place as he wants to see Helena and receives permission from the prince.
He meets Helena once more at Rozlogi and then sets out for Czyhryn.
Here, he meets Zaćwilichowski (Zatsvilikhovski), an old colonel, who says he expects revolt in the Ukraine.
He also re-encounters Zagłoba who tells him that he has befriended Bohun.
Further on his travels he decides to send Rzędzian with a message to Helena to flee the impending hordes.
His party encounters some Cossacks and Tartars and a fight breaks out in which Jan's soldiers are slaughtered and he severely wounded.
The alliance between the Cossacks and Tartars had been brokered by Chmielnicki, who understood that Cossacks, while having an excellent infantry, could not hope to match the Polish cavalry, the best in Europe.
By combining Cossack infantry with Tartar cavalry, the uprising had balanced military force and a chance to beat the Polish army.
Jan is taken to Hassan Basha to the Sich.
The messages to the friends in the court are discovered and two, Barabasz (Barabash) and Tatarczuk (Tatarchuk), are murdered by the Brotherhood of Cossacks.
Tuhaj-bej (Tugay Bey), the Tartar leader, is given Jan as a ransom captive and news arrives that the Great Hetman, Mikołaj Potocki (Pototski), has sent his son Stefan (Stephen) with his army against the Brotherhood, so Chmielnicki is chosen as their leader.
The Zaporojians and Tartars march out of the Sitch to meet the Poles marching from Czyhryn.
Chmielnicki avoids besieging Kudak.
Krzeszowski (Krechovski), a Cossack, is sent to support Potocki but is won over by talks with Chmielnicki and massacres the German mercenaries who refuse to support his betrayal.
At Żółte Wody (Zhovti Vody) the Polish hussars become bogged down in the soft mud and cannot attack on the second day of the battle, so Chmielnicki wins it and another at Kruta Bałka (Krutaya Balka).
Chmielnicki frees Jan to parley with the Prince.
Skrzetuski passes through a devastated landscape to Czyhryn and then to Rozlogi, where he discovers that Helena has disappeared.
He mistakenly believes that Helena has been spirited away by Bohun.
In reality, after capturing Rzędzian and discovering Skrzetuski's plan to marry Helena, Bohun went immediately to Rozlogi to wed her.
However, Zagłoba, who accompanied him, spirited her away after Bohun was wounded by Mikołaj (Nicholas), one of the old Princess' sons.
Instead of heading for Lubni, they headed for Czerkasy but are caught between Bohun's force and Chmielnicki's advancing army.
To disguise themselves Zagłoba pounces on an old blind minstrel and a young boy and steals their clothes.
At a village named Demianówka (Demianovka), Zagłoba persuades the villagers to flee to Chmielnicki's force taking himself and Helena with them.
Zagłoba eventually decides the safest place is on the right bank of the Dnieper and, just as they are crossing, Bohun's Cossacks appear at the river's bank but it is too late to stop the runaways.
Prince Jeremi's army arrives at Rozlogi and Skrzetuski is reunited with Wiśniowiecki.
After returning to Lubni, preparations are made to march and Lubni is abandoned to its fate.
They end up marching through the forests to Czernihów (Chernigov) where Chmielnicki attempts to burn the wood.
They eventually cross the Dnieper and go through the Pripet Marshes, and reach the region of revolt where they wreak revenge on the Cossacks.